The institutional directory
Explore the Castle
Every room represents a real operating responsibility.
Shared Castle Institutions provide reusable specialist capability. People belong to institutions. Work belongs to businesses.
Within the walls
Thirteen responsibilities. One Castle.
The directory records the organisational model. Status is stated conservatively and never implies more capability than is currently established.
Grouped by responsibility, not physical location.
Authority & coordination
Discovery & communications
The discovery post
Scout Wing
Discovery, business grounding, website inspection and legitimate contact routes — assembled into evidence, not sales instructions.
The correspondence office
Outreach Office
Commercial messaging, drafting, review and correspondence preparation.
Raven Tower
The Rookery
Communications transport, dispatch and send safety.
Construction, agreements & delivery
The construction workshop
Builder’s Yard
Customer-facing construction and fulfilment artefacts.
The agreement chamber
Deal Chamber
Commercial commitment, approvals and agreement state.
The financial records office
Treasury
Payment state, financial operations and reconciliation.
The provisioning yard
Quartermaster’s Yard
Onboarding, provisioning, logistics and handoff readiness.
Knowledge, engineering & readiness
The knowledge archive
Library
Durable knowledge, records, evidence and retrieval.
The internal engineering institution
Architect’s Guild
Internal Castle and Hermes Empire engineering.
The capability & readiness institution
Infirmary
Model, resource and provider capability and readiness.
The world & the machinery
Castle of Todd.
Hermes Empire.
Castle of Todd is the organisational and operational world model. Hermes Empire is the underlying technical estate: applications, databases, APIs, queues, model providers, connectors, schedulers, services and runtime infrastructure.
The architecture is a way to make responsibilities and boundaries understandable, not a fantasy layered over software.
A vocabulary with real meaning
Simplify complexity without falsifying it.
- Character
- Durable organisational role or responsibility
- Room / chamber / yard
- Capability boundary or workspace
- Building
- Persistent organisational or technical domain
- Ledger
- Authoritative state or durable record
- Tray / desk
- Queue or pending work
- Dossier
- Evidence-rich record
- Door / gate
- Interface, permission or state transition
- Wall
- Hard authority or safety boundary
- Road
- Supported relationship between domains
- Seal
- Specific approval state
- Raven
- Communications transport
The governing boundary
Intelligence does not automatically grant authority.